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![]() ![]() “She’s So Modern” contained the provocative line “Charlie ain’t no Nazi, she just likes to wear her leather boots, ‘cos it’s exciting for the veterans and it’s a tonic for the troops.” The first two singles appeared on the band’s debut self-titled album The Boomtown Rats. A third single, “She’s So Modern”, became the second Top Ten hit on the Irish Pop Singles chart and the third to reach the Top 20 on the UK charts. The theme was reflected in a hit by the Police the next year in “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”. Their second single, “Mary Of the 4th Form”, described of a teacher’s sexual attraction to a pubescent girl, who behaves in an overtly sexual manner. ![]() It climbed to #2 on the Irish Pop Singles chart and #11 on the UK Singles chart. The song was a fusion of punk rock and new wave. But they changed their name after Bob Geldof read Woody Guthrie’s Bound For Glory. In Guthrie’s autobiography, the Boomtown Rats is the name of Guthrie’s boyhood gang.Īfter getting a record deal in 1976, the band released their first single in August 1977, “Lookin’ After No. When the band formed in 1975 they first named themselves The Nightlife Thugs. Simon Crowe was born in Dublin in 1955, while Johnnie Fingers (born John Peter Moylett) was born in Dublin in 1956. Cott learned to play flamenco guitar at the age of 11, and saw Bob Dylan in concert on May 5, 1966. Garrick Roberts was born in Dublin in 1950, while Gerry Cott was born there in 1954. Pete Briquette (born Patrick Martin Cusack) was born in 1954 in Ballyjamesduff where peat briquettes were burned for heat instead of coal. After graduating from school, he had several jobs including working for The Georgia Straight newspaper in Vancouver, before returning to Ireland. ![]() Bob Geldof was born in 1951 in a town on the coast south of Dublin called. The Boomtown Rats formed in Dublin in 1975. #3: I Don’t Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats ![]()
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